Missing Girl With Aids Still Sought

RICHMOND — Investigators who have been seeking Brittany Williams for three years fear the child could not have survived without drug treatment for her AIDS. The investigation, however, remains active.

Brittany was 7 when she was last seen in the Richmond area. She now would be 12. She had been in the care of Henrico County resident Kim Parker, who took custody of the girl when she 3. Brittany's mother died of AIDS a short time later.

The search for the girl began after Parker told a Henrico juvenile court judge in 2003 that she had given Brittany to two friends in August 2000 because caring for the girl had become stressful. Authorities located two women fitting Parker's description and determined that while they knew Parker and Brittany, they were not involved in the girl's disappearance. Parker, 50, is in a federal prison in West Virginia serving an eight-year sentence on charges stemming from Brittany's disappearance.